Bright Lights Bigger City · Ceelo Green

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 7 more places -- 79.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BRIGHT LIGHTS BIGGER CITY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 64 and 80.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 79 keep time, 6 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCS1AJS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bright Lights Bigger City?

109 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Bright Lights Bigger City hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bright Lights Bigger City?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 64 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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